Zen in the contemporary marketplace

dc.contributor.author	Crabtree, Adam Wallace
dc.date.accessioned	2016-02-19T23:10:13Z
dc.date.available	2016-02-19T23:10:13Z
dc.date.issued	2012-08
dc.description.abstract	I argue in the following thesis that scholars of Zen should take the presence of Zen related commodities in the marketplace seriously, rather than shunning this presence with respect to discursive parameters that orient scholarly engagements with religious "tradition". I hold that much of scholarly neglect stems from the view that commodification in general is a force injurious to religious tradition. Nevertheless, when we examine closely the material objects that propagate in the marketplace, the line between commodification and religion as discrete categories is blurred. More specifically, "Zen" material objects past and present carry a semiotic and conceptual trace encoded in analogues between them, and individuals' rhetoric in relation to Zen's institutional, doctrinal, narrative and popular contexts is telling of this semiotic and conceptual trace.
dc.description.degree	M.A.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100947
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	University of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.relation	Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Religion (Asian).
dc.subject	Zen Buddhism
dc.title	Zen in the contemporary marketplace
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.dcmi	Text

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